Why do people hate Electron???? Like, VSCode, Cursor, whatsapp like hello? fast dev and flexibility > over optimized native stuff.
Why is Claude an Electron app?
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I mean a software ide should be pretty low on the totem pole of software complexity. Edit: (1) because most of the complexity lies in the tool chains that are integrated, like compilers and linters, and (2) because there’s much more complex software out there, mostly at the intersection of engineering domains, to name a few: ballistic guidance systems, IoT and networking, predictive maintenance systems, closed-loop p…
If it’s so simple, where is yours?
I’m not the one going on national news implying that everyone can fire their software engineers over the next couple of years lol
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#453Why do people hate Electron???? Like, VSCode, Cursor, whatsapp like hello? fast dev and flexibility > over optimized native stuff.
It is so disingenuous to mention the whatsapp electron client and not pretend its a slow turd. or maybe your comment is sarcasm and i just can’t notice it
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#454OT: I use Tauri exclusively for apps these days when I'm building and it's specular. Never going back.
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Agreed! I built a MacOS Postgres client with just Claude Code[1]. It could use some UI improvements, but it runs much better than other apps I’ve tried (specifically what it’s replacing for me: RazorSQL) and the binary is smaller than 20MB. 1: https://github.com/NeodymiumPhish/Pharos
Tauri is still a WebView wrapped in some chrome, right? That's not what I would consider "native".
Yes. I’d prefer a native interface and have been working on that. I should change the readme until that’s complete.
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You might try giving an example of a complex UI that isn't a frustratingly slow resource hog next time you're posting this rant.
> complex UI that isn't a frustratingly slow resource hog Maybe you can give ones of competing ones of comparable complexity that are clearly better? Again, I'm just making a point from existence proof. VSCode wiped the floor with competing IDEs. GMail pushed its whole industry to near extinction, and (again, just to call this out explicitly) Amazon has shipped what I genuinely believe to be the single most complicat…
> Amazon has shipped what I genuinely believe to be the single most complicated unified user experience in human history
OK, I shop at Amazon, am a Prime member, all that stuff, but their web site is horrible. Just pathetic.
I appreciate that they are huge and sell a pretty much incomprehensible number of things, and that what it takes behind the scenes to make it all happen is hugely complex and very impressive on its own terms, but still: the web site is horrible.
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#459This post and this entire thread are HN-sniping to the millionth degree. We have all the classics here: - AI bad - JavaScript bad - Developers not understanding why Electron has utility because they don't understand the browser as a fourth OS platform - Electron eats my ram oh no posted from my 2gb thinkpad
Author of the post here. I didn’t say AI was bad and I acknowledged the benefits of Electron and why it makes sense to choose it. With 64gb of RAM on my Mac Studio, Claude desktop is still slow! Good Electron apps exist, it’s just an interesting note give recent spec driven development discussion.
Not coming at you at all, AI is a touchy subject on HN nowadays in any capacity and brings out the worst here.
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#460This post and this entire thread are HN-sniping to the millionth degree. We have all the classics here: - AI bad - JavaScript bad - Developers not understanding why Electron has utility because they don't understand the browser as a fourth OS platform - Electron eats my ram oh no posted from my 2gb thinkpad
We should repeat it over and over until all these electrons apps are replaced by proper native apps. It’s not just performance: they look like patched websites, have inconsistent style and bad usability, and packed with bugs that are already solved since tens of years in our OS. It’s like Active Desktop ™ all over. Working on a native Mac app feels just better.
How much is Linus paying you?